Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
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Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
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Re: Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
#2answer: short term political gain
Re: Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
#3actual answer: it's right on the border to Germany and has a long history of low-level incidents, and the Germans were starting to get seriously pissed off at that.
It's also the oldest nuclear power plant France was still running.
Oh and also the Rhine valley is seismically active, even if only at a low level.
Re: Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
#4So in order to please the environmental agenda of the Green party they are shutting down a nuclear plant and switching to fossil fuels.
Re: Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
#5actual answer: it's right on the border to Germany and has a long history of low-level incidents, and the Germans were starting to get seriously pissed off at that. It's also the oldest nuclear power plant France was still running. Oh and also the Rhine valley is seismically active, even if only at a low level.
So in other words, Germany (with some the most serious "green tech" laws) is basically forcing France to shut down their plant, even though it's been operating mostly fine and has been actually helping fight climate change for a long time already.
Re: Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
#6actual answer: it's right on the border to Germany and has a long history of low-level incidents, and the Germans were starting to get seriously pissed off at that. It's also the oldest nuclear power plant France was still running. Oh and also the Rhine valley is seismically active, even if only at a low level.
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Re: Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
#7This article sounds too bad to be true in my ears. For example, Germany is shutting down their coal plants gradually until 2038 (why would they then commission one this year, as stated by the article?). I agree it sounds stupid to shut it down prematurely, and I agree the green movement (at least here in Sweden, and apparently also in France) is many times doing stupid things that actually harm the environment, but this article does not seem to aim to portray the full situation as objectively as possible.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/world/europe/la...
Re: Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
#8actual answer: it's right on the border to Germany and has a long history of low-level incidents, and the Germans were starting to get seriously pissed off at that. It's also the oldest nuclear power plant France was still running. Oh and also the Rhine valley is seismically active, even if only at a low level.
1. Can you provide a source?
2. still a problem that they’re not replacing not with green energy though right?
Re: Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
#9actual answer: it's right on the border to Germany and has a long history of low-level incidents, and the Germans were starting to get seriously pissed off at that. It's also the oldest nuclear power plant France was still running. Oh and also the Rhine valley is seismically active, even if only at a low level.
So in other words, Germany (with some the most serious "green tech" laws) is basically forcing France to shut down their plant, even though it's been operating mostly fine and has been actually helping fight climate change for a long time already.
I have no idea whether it's even possible to find out how the different reasons have factored into the decision; it might as well just have been due to the age or seismic activity and nothing else...
But, in reality, it was probably a mix of all 3 and some more.
Re: Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
#10actual answer: it's right on the border to Germany and has a long history of low-level incidents, and the Germans were starting to get seriously pissed off at that. It's also the oldest nuclear power plant France was still running. Oh and also the Rhine valley is seismically active, even if only at a low level.
Germany takes like 30% of its energy from coal. They should have kept the reactor running until coal energy is no longer used in Germany.